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Hikaru Nakamura vs Loek van Wely
Tata Steel Masters (2014), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 7, Jan-19
Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Normal Variation (B45)  ·  0-1

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Jan-21-14  SirRuthless: Not sure what is wrong with Nakamura but he deserves to lose for his trash play and escape acts in this event. Now -1 through 7 rounds. Congrats to van wely who played nearly all the top engine suggestions in the middlegame.
Jan-21-14  Shams: <Sir Ruthless> <Not sure what is wrong with Nakamura but he deserves to lose for his trash play and escape acts in this event. Now -1 through 7 rounds.>

Not this again. You're not supposed to let people this far in your head who you don't even know.

-1 through seven rounds, the horror. I suppose if it were up to you, tournaments would only invite players who would have plus scores?

Jan-21-14
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  perfidious: <Shams> When I cited the snippet by <Marmot> above, <Ruthless> was the yahoo who certainly came to mind.

Not, of course, that he will likely read this......

Jan-21-14
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  perfidious: <SirWorthless....Congrats to van wely who played nearly all the top engine suggestions in the middlegame.>

What, another arrogant turd who thinks this constitutes prima facie evidence of cheating?

Jan-21-14  Marmot PFL: <<SirWorthless....Congrats to van wely who played nearly all the top engine suggestions in the middlegame.>

Guess what, so did Krishna today. Must be a conspiracy...

Jan-21-14
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  perfidious: This should all be moved to the Borislav Ivanov page...ha ha ha!!!
Jan-21-14  SirRuthless: And your problem is? I commended him on his play . Did you watch the interview wan wely joked about it himself when the interviewer brought that exact quote up.. I am fully aware that top players are capable of playing 15 or 20 top engine moves in a row in the middlegame all by their lonesome. Jeez.

Here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZPX...

Jan-21-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <SirRuthless.....I don't like the vermin who come from the woodwork when a player loses a game or is struggling in general....>

Ever hear the one 'bout the pot 'n the kettle, Mr Vermin?

From Harikrishna vs Nakamura, 2014 :

<Wow Naka can't see anything in this event. Still probably should be -4 at this point. -2 through 8/11 isn't the end of the world.>

Tata Steel (2014)

<Nakamura blunders. The Radjabov style collapse is ON! He better pull out of zurich and take a vacation NOW. Give them time to call someone else.>

Tata Steel (2014)

<He will commit suicide after zurich if he goes there in this form. This chess is disgusting.>

<....These people couldn't hold a GM jock if their life depended on it.>

This is, generally speaking, correct, but you would hardly be one to know.

Jan-21-14  Shams: <perfidious> Someone's gonna need the aloe vera after that one.
Jan-21-14  haydn20: <Shams...-1 through seven rounds, the horror. I suppose if it were up to you, tournaments would only invite players who would have plus scores?> LOL. I now get many math students who in high school all got all A's in math and who can't do enough algebra to pass Calc 1. That's a lot like a round-robin where everyone is +2: you gotta fudge the scores.
Jan-21-14  schweigzwang: Oh, do you get this too? "(1/a) + (1/b) = 1/(a+b)"

GRRRRRRRRRRRR

Jan-21-14  Shams: <schweigzwang> That equation is very close to being true, though...just turn that plus sign 45° to the right, and presto!
Jan-21-14
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  Domdaniel: <Shams> *Both* of the plus signs, of course: giving us ...

1/ab = 1/(axb)

Jan-21-14  nok: Rule #1: everything's linear.
Jan-21-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: Now that I think of it, doesn't 45° to the *left* also work? Where 45° = pi/4.
Jan-21-14  Shams: <Dom> Yes, thanks. Both of them. :)
Jan-22-14  haydn20: < schweigzwang: Oh, do you get this too? "(1/a) + (1/b) = 1/(a+b)" GRRRRRRRRRRRR> BTW this is true iff a = bw where w is one of the complex cube roots of 1 and ab is not zero. I do get (a+b)^2 = a^2 + b^2. And I second your GRRR...
Jan-22-14  MarkFinan: <Shams: <Sir Ruthless> <Not sure what is wrong with Nakamura but he deserves to lose for his trash play and escape acts in this event. Now -1 through 7 rounds.> Not this again. <<You're not supposed to let people this far in your head who you don't even know.> LOL 😃
Jan-22-14  SirRuthless: I'm not trolling player pages like you troll So's page so I am not seeing a point here. There is no comparison to complaining about a player performance and trolling his player page trying to rile up his fans like you are doing on Wesley So page. Shams and perfidious, who by the way I put on ignore and is still referencing me for some strange reason, is off base here.
Jan-23-14
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  Domdaniel: <SirRuthless> Excuse me, are you really saying that you have both <Shams> and <perfidious> on your ignore list? These are two of the smartest and most interesting members that CG has, in my opinion. You may think you know better. But you're mistaken.
Jan-23-14
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  perfidious: <Dom> That is water off this duck's back.
Jul-09-14  ChessYouGood: <haydn20: 6. g4 and 8. h4 are perfectly compatible with this Sicilian line. If you don't press on the Kside as White, you will get crushed on the Qside.> Yes, I'm sure Nakamura was thinking exactly the same thing when he got crushed here. As I said, great to see Van Wely show why g4 and h4 are premature bad moves and pointless, ineffective aggression of the sort we have come to expect from this guy.
Oct-07-14  ColeTrane: "Knocking out Naka"
Mar-12-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  piltdown man: Misunderestimated the opponent. As Dubya would say.
Mar-12-18  hkannan2000: 51...Qg2+ 52. Kxh4 g5+ 53. Qxg5 Qh2# works out a pretty mate or loss of Queen.

Of course it is easy to look into such positions at leisure and comment but getting such positions against GMs is another thing.

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